The Readout YouTube Stats

@readoutwhatif · Science & Education · Updated Nov 11, 2026

The Readout channel overview

The Readout (@readoutwhatif) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2026. It has 3.5K subscribers and 1.2M total views across 24 videos, an average of 48K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 40K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 19K views. Over the last 12 months, The Readout published 15 videos (20% Shorts), and 2 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Readout make?

Returbe estimates The Readout's YouTube ad revenue at $2.2K – $7.5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.45 to $11.84, typically $6.41, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6.4K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

The Readout publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (40% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 10, 2026.

The Readout's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are The Readout's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• What If You Got Brighter and Couldn't Stop?222K views · Oct 27, 202611.8× typical views
• What If You Became Radioactive and Couldn't Stop?210K views · Oct 27, 202611.2× typical views
• What If You Vibrated Faster and Couldn't Stop?45K views · Oct 28, 20262.4× typical views
• What If Your Cat Got Smarter and Couldn't Stop?39K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• What If You Got Charged Up and Couldn't Stop?23K views · Oct 27, 20261.2× typical views
• What If You Served Your Prison Sentence Next to a Black Hole?19K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• What If Cosmic Rays Got Stronger and Couldn't Stop?12K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• What If You Followed One Breath for 1,000 Years?6K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views

Latest videos

4 of The Readout's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• What If Every Step Took You Twice as Far?2.7K views · Nov 10, 20260.1× typical views
• What If Everything You Ever Lost Came Back?1.9K views · Nov 8, 2026
• What If You Got Spicier and Couldn't Stop?3.3K views · Nov 8, 20260.2× typical views
• What If You Served Your Prison Sentence Next to a Black Hole?19K views · Nov 7, 20261× typical views
• What If Your Car Evolved Every Time You Crashed?1.8K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• What If You Never Left Chernobyl?2.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• What If Your Cat Got Smarter and Couldn't Stop? #shorts2.7K views · Nov 3, 2026
• What If Your Cat Got Smarter and Couldn't Stop?39K views · Nov 1, 20262.1× typical views
• What If Cosmic Rays Got Stronger and Couldn't Stop?12K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• What If You Vibrated Faster and Couldn't Stop?45K views · Oct 28, 20262.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.6K videos from 720 channels in this niche. 13.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: MemeBlaze HFY (1.5K subs, best video 49.1×), Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 92×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 22.5×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 522.1×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 115.4×), Peace of Men (1.8K subs, best video 139.4×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with The Readout or YouTube.